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Definition of Free nerve ending
1. Noun. Microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Nerve Ending
Literary usage of Free nerve ending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"Tactile Corpuscle of Meissner, tactile cell and free nerve ending. (Merk'el-Henle.)
a. Corpuscle proper, outside of which is seen the connective-tissue ..."
2. Elements of Physiological Psychology;...(thoroughly Rev. and Re-written) by by George Trumbull Ladd, Robert Sessions Woodworth (1915)
"This form may be called a "free nerve-ending." 69 —End.Bulb from the Human its
branching termi- ..."
3. Psychology; an Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human by James Rowland Angell (1908)
"15. A, a peripheral sensory nerve originating in the ganglion of the posterior
fibre bundle of the spinal cord. NE, free nerve ending in the skin; PBN, ..."
4. Kirkes' Handbook of Physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes, Charles Wilson Greene (1922)
"Tactile Corpuscle of Meissner, Tactile Cell, and free nerve ending. a, Corpuscle
proper, outside of which is seen the connective-tissue capsule; b, ..."
5. Electro-physiology by Wilhelm Biedermann (1898)
"... from a free nerve- ending to another that merely lies near it (as in the
olfactory glomeruli), or to a cell (as in the simple reflex arc), ..."
6. The History of the human body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"... between two large epidermal cells which seem to pro- FIG. 128. Various endings
of sensory nerves. (a) free nerve ending. (b) Merkel's corpuscles. ..."
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